Re: [PLUG] Network question

["Keith C. Perry via plug" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Really?  That's not good and thankfully we don't need them either.  
This goes to my point about running through a complete rebuild.  I'd much rather use standard well known methods instead of something specialized for a particular cloud or VPS.

My preference is to K.I.S.S but whatever people do they should get very good at the data protection and security procedures.




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Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2024 6:51:52 PM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Network question

I’ve had issues with Linode since the merger. In addition to my backups, I use their snapshots or backups. I received an email a couple months ago stating that they were moving VMs to different server, and all of my backups were corrupted and unrecoverable. Luckily I didn’t need them.

Ron

> On May 14, 2024, at 6:34 PM, Rich Freeman via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 6:19 PM Keith C. Perry via plug
> <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
>> 
>> When someone tells me that they are being randomly probed- which is literally everything on the internet, my first instinct isn't to tell them to move to some cloud / VPS or data center this or that.  That is not the solution for this issue.
> 
> Yeah, everybody everywhere is getting probed.  You only see it because
> you run the router.  If you use a cloud service where you need to
> explicitly open ports, then that is also getting probed, but only the
> provider is setting the logs on that.  Whatever ports you do open will
> get probed either way.  Self-hosting is really only a problem if you
> aren't running a well-updated router.  Oh, and your home router is
> getting probed whether you forward ports on it or not.
> 
> Now, if your ISP is blocking the ports you need to forward, well, then
> you don't have much choice.
> 
> I self-host lots of stuff on FIOS and haven't had any problems.  They
> don't even block port 25 (of course if you want to send anything
> outgoing nobody will accept it directly due to IP reputation).
> 
> None of this is to detract from VPS providers - that is a perfectly
> viable option.
> 
> -- 
> Rich
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